26 Bible Verses about Family Love

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.

Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

and a man's enemies will be members of his own family.

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his immediate family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

fill up my cup of joy by living in harmony, by fostering the same disposition of love, your hearts beating in unison, your minds set on one purpose.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

So He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the kingdom of God,

For from now on, five in a house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

And over all these qualities put on love, which is the tie of perfection that binds us together.

And if you say 'Good morning' to your brothers only, what more than others are you doing?

managing his own house well, with perfect seriousness keeping his children under control

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.